Live Blog: South Carolina Republican Primary

Here we go folks! It looks like Mitt Romney is about to get an a$$ whipping. Newt Gingrich’s ego is going to fill the whole room tonight. I don’t think I can face listening to his speech. I still say Romney is going to be the nominee, but I’m glad things are getting a little more interesting.

The South Carolina polls close at 7PM, so in just a short time, we’ll start getting exit poll results. Judging by the talking heads on MSNBC, I’d say Newt is going to win pretty big. But we’ll know soon.

Here are a few recent headlines to hold you till we start getting results.

I’ve been reading all the comments about Newt Leroy more than likely winning tonight and found it hard to sit here and restrain my judgement of South Carolinians if he does win – Dr. Ablow’s comments about what a positive his actions were is just beyond reality – where have all the adults disappear to? (roll)

On CNN they are saying there is no way Gingrich will be the nominee. If Romney does really badly, calls will be going out to Jeb Bush and Bobby Jindal to see if they are interested. If Romney doesn’t win Florida, there will be calls for him to get out.

Sorry about that. Tweetie actually made a little bit of sense when he said that Gingrich winning SC, even if Romney is the ultimate nominee, moved the whole Republican race to the right. That leaves Obama a lot more room to run.

Although I expected Newter to win – I am truly sick to my stomach. I thought W was my worst nightmare.

Steve Schmidt on MSNBC brought up the favorability polls and Lawrence O’Donnell is stating NO ONE has ever overcome unfavorable ratings like Newt’s. There is no way he could win a general election. NEVER, NO ONE, IMPOSSIBLE, frankly those words scare me. I don’t consider myself superstitious, but why, why tempt fate? Especially if the result is The should be Newtered One? Deep breath, deep breath………………………

Steve Schmidt just said that if Romney doesn’t get control and stop making stupid errors, he’s not nearly as inevitable as he used to think. Interesting exit poll number out of SC, people there think Gingrich is the most electable (48%). That’s completely bizarre!

I’ve been waiting for MSNBC to post Colbert/Cain numbers, but they haven’t. Listened to part of Romney’s speech – looked & sounded like he’s got his mojo back. Watched portions of Paul’s & Santorum’s. I changed the channel to watch My Cat From Hell – the best show on TV during the concession speeches. MSNBC pundits are saying Santorum is setting himself up for VP for the nominee – whoever he may be.

On to Florida, my crazy a$$ state. Who knows, we did elect a man who formed & ran a health care company that defrauded the government on Medicare. And, of course, the Gov Jeb Bush helped insure his bro won the 2000 prez election. Green person suffering in a very Red State.

Florida is a nice place. I’ve got an ex daughter-in-law and two grandchildren who live in Stuart. I know what you mean about the red state. I live in Austin which is the only blue dot in the heart of red Texas. That’s gonna change in the future though because we are a majority minority state now. If the Republicans don’t get the support of the Latino population, we’ll be blue again soon.

I think most of those pundits are just full of it. Hard to imagine anyone picking Santorum for VP. If you can’t bring his constituents yourself, you can’t win a republican primary anyway. I couldn’t listen to Paul or Santorum either, yuck!

Evangelicals like to cavil about supposed polygamous history of Mormons, yet —

Romney has been married to one woman only, for 42 years, while Gingrich is the one who yells all over the place about “Christian values”, who has changed his churches and his values three times each, with a mistress thrown in here and there, all flavoured with pious-sounding “repentance.” And the evangelicals throw themselves in holy hysteria at his feet. Oh God, spare me.

EXACTLY. I’m no Romney fan, and there’s a lot not to like about Romney in his own right…however, I do think when it comes down to Romney vs. Gingrich and Republicans claiming to be for family values and sanctity of marriage and all that other nonsense, choosing Gingrich over Romney is abundantly revealing.

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